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the bee the university of buffalo weekly vol 13 university of buffalo february 17 1933 no 17 honors conferred at mid-year commencement chancellor's medal awarded to winner at commencement special to the bee public award ct the chancellor's medal for 1033 will be an important part of the university of buffalo com mencement exercises in edmund hayes hall at the thirty-third annual univer sity day convocation on wednesday february 22 at ii o'clock according to a statement from chancellor capon at the close of the university council meeting in his office late this after noon not awarded during the years of 1028 and 1030 the medal 1ms been awarded by the university of buffalo council every year but two since its inauguration in 1925 according to the stipulation in the will of the late chan cellor charles p norton as friends of buffalo and of the university recall the clause in the will rends as follows : the chancellor's medal is to personify civic patriotism and verify public ser vice in the eyes of the citizens of buf falo that chancellor norton intended a very broad and liberal construction of the terms civic patriotism and pub lic service is made clear by the follow ing two paragraphs which he wrote concerning this event i ask the council of the university to award it each year on washington's birthday at the university exercises to some citizen who has performed some great thing which is identified with buffalo it may be a great civic or political act a great book a great work of art a great scientific achieve ment or any other thing which in it self is truly great and ennobling mid which dignifies the performer and bnf ' flilo ibtiw vt ot tmrworw by buffalo i mean not only the city of buffalo as it is circumscribed by its city limits but also the greater buffalo of its environing neighborhood to which the city's moral intellectual educational and business influence ex tends the deed for which the medal is given need not have been performd within the year immediately proceeding the time of awarding the decoration the medal may lie awarded to a man woman or child the recipients of the medal during the past eight years are ab follows 1925 bishop brent 1920 walter p cooke 1927 frank b baird 1928 no award 1929 john j albright 1930 no award 1081 durance j hamlin 1932 dr frank a hartman following the established tradition of the university the name of the per son who it to receive the award will not be made known until the time of the washington birthday exercises when the recipient is publicly honored by the gift of the inscribed bronze medal university faculty holds series of free lectures the lnst few lays of february the entire month ef march and part of april will see the university of buf falo open its irrtth'f halls to the pub he free of charge daring this time fine series if lec tures will lie given publicly by five different departments in the university on monday evening between february 27 and april 2 various professors from the history government and economics departments will speak at townsend hall professors bled blgelow pratt tlppetts park and bldwell will lecture then at 8:15 p m on international and economic developments since 1922 the lectures on adjustment to social change will be given on tuesday after noon at 4:30 beginning february 28 by professors leery carpenter dr h ij levin lester e s jones mr p p benjamin and miss marquerlte jane these also will be held at town send hall tlie contribution of literature to the life of to-day will be the subject of lectures by prcfessors perry silverman denklnger two lectures hewitt and schuuroth on wednesday evenings 8:15 o'clock at the grosvenor library decent developments m the physical and biological sciences will include demonstrations and lectures by profes sors it n jones d f smith spencer and pegrune on thursday evening 8 15 o'clock at foster hall to begin march 2 second professors from the school of educa tion will lecture on adjustment to educational change these lecturers are to be professors lynch jorgensen nod agee jhey will speak nf the grosvenor library on friday evenings between march 3 and 17 these lectures are being offered to the public partly in recognition of the needs created by the depression fur thermore the increasingly large num ber of college graduates who are un employed is indication that much of the public particularly the white collared unemployed are capable of gaining profit form these talks adequ ate opportunity for questioning or con ference with the speaker after the lec ture will be available scholarships and loans the committee on scholarships and loans announces that applications for scholarships and loans must be m the hands of the committee before septem ber first awards are announced on september 15 a few loans are re served for second semester announce ment of these awards are made on february first all available funds have been awarded for this year mechanism and vitalism topic of lecture bg mcgrath after the chairs lounges and benches in the women's lounge had been filled the late comers to the last philosophy club meeting availed themselves of seats m the windows on the piano or were content in finding something against which to lean mr earl j mcgrath spoke on mech anism and vitalism as explanations of life mr mcgrath gave a mass of cumulative evidence m support of mechanism from scientific investiga tions m physics chemistry biology and their allied fields he showed con clusively the necessity of the mechan istic point of view as a presupposition m successful scientific work in his paper he defended the mechanistic position against the strongest argu ments of the vitalists on two points mainly comparlsc.n of utility and com parison of methods used m building up evidence in the discussion which followed many points of view were expressed and mr mcgrath was asked to indicate the bearing which the mechanistic theory has upon such activities as re ligion moral responsibility and social sanctions all who were present regardless of their personal views agreed that it was a banner meeting following are excerpts from mr megrath's excellent paper in conclusion let us summarize the arguments thnt support the mechanistic position : iâ€”there1 â€” there are no chemical elements within the body which are not found elsewhere 2 â€” the organism abides by the sec ond law of thci-mndyuamices m that all the energy taken into the body m any form exactly equals the amount of energy expended by the organism in its various activities it is difficult there fore to understand the place of any extraphysieal force 3 â€” the progress of organic chemistry has demonstrated that a considerable number of the chemical constituents of the body can be synthesized 4 all investigations of anatomical and physiological features of the or ganism are explained in physical or chemical terms the processes of digestion and respiration and the cir culation of the blood illustrate this ken hines sings alna mater at junior prom tlie junior prom committee has made arrangements with the buffalo broadcasting corp for a big 8.8.c collegiate radio party to go over the air at 11 30 they have secured the services of kenneth hines as master of ceremonies who will sing the alma mater song at the beginning and end of the program kenneth hines you remember won the atwnter kent award six years ago and has had varied ex perience m national broadcasting and work as a professional master of cere monies in new york city grand march led by diet ward immediately following the radio pro gram the grand march will be held with chester ward this year's football mp tain leading the procession follofc 6y the presidents of the various jiticr classes this will give a chance to jthe charming ladles attending the affair to show off their new gowns and give the bison head society a chance to tap the new members the march will end at the stage where lelnnd mirsheimer president of the honorary society will speak a few words and introduce its new members after which due congratulations will be given by the chancellor and the deans deans to be in the receiving line the receiving line will lie composed of chancellor and sirs capen dean and mrs park dean and mrs marsh dean and mrs alden dean and mrs squire dean and mrs koch dean and mrs cummings and dean gregory in order to carry out the traditional pomp and ceremony of the affair it is request ed that all attending be officially re ceived from the indication of over 300 res ervations for the pcet-prom party at laube's old spain to be opeii exclusive ly to those attending the i'rom it would seem that n usual capacity crowd will attend get your tickets now as stud ent sellers must turn m the money or tickets by noon of the 24 of course s*oll may buy your tickets at the door but if you pay for them before the deadline your classmates will lie given credit for the sale jan carlson bee on display the display case on the third floor of crosby hall is at present graced with an exhibit of bees ancient and modem there is copy from way back m hv.il when the buffalo com mercial gave way to the university of buffalo bee subsequent issues on exhibit give opportunity for compar ison and furnish evidence of progress we see changes m type headings editorial style etc one is impressed with the fact that above all liast aud present the bee has been and is the organ of the student body the mirror of all university activity elected president john mccroery has lieen elected persident ofthe senior class of the school of business administration a senior at georgin teeb took the same course twice m the same room he passed both times under the same pro fessor aud never discovered the error nor did the professor tango your senorita to old spain resulting from the urge of enthus iasm the entire reserved seating cap acity for the junior prom party at lnube's old spain has been sold out added to an already attractive pro gram of entertainment will be a dark deep-dyed dramatic sketch by bert bisantz assisted by gordon hayes seymour abies edward brannllch and john murphy other entertainers will include the famous moore sisters radio singers bill lynd saxaphonlst and members of the prom orchestra one problem which is at present be setting the committee is the selection of a master of ceremonies to officiate at the microphone any suggestions ai.ing this line will be welcomed by bob winegar or walter mtiim ji soo-frr.e the laube management promises it k usual excellent food , and service and has made special attangements to ac commodate those who hold prom party tickets from 1 a m till it is fervently hoped that the five hundred dollar article on the garden wall namely the 13th century vene tian vase will still be intact after the festivities have faded into tlie dim and distant past this is extremely likely it had better bo if everyone keeps the schnobel m a clean and healthy con dition vernon craig shakespeare wrote not for posterity says hamilton mr clayton hamilton press-agent for walter hampdon leading actor of the american stage to-day spoke on hamlet and shakespeare m general tuesday afternoon february 14 ill crosby hull mr hamilton stated that shakespeare was primarily a play wright and secondarily a iÂ«>et whose purpose was to interest his immediate public not the public of posterity and to evoke an emotional response m ids audience not to concern himself with ethical ad religious problems the scope of drama is limited insofar as the playwright must set forth images thoughts and emotions combined m a way familiui to his audience in other words although shakespeare lived at a tinning point of time and was con temporary with the scientist francis bacon lie was not concerned with pro gress but summed up m his writings what had been thought and felt and said in preceding centuries after the retrospective manner of dramatists he performed the great function of drama that of furnishing vicarious experiences to help us understand our fellow-men hut exhibited the panorama of human experiences without drawing from them lessons m religion and philosophy although the current philosophic and religious thought accepted by shakes peare m hniulet was nearly outmoded in his own day his eloquent treatment of the subject still thrills audiences as ben jonson said he was not for an age lint for all time oberlin co-eds may smoke m their rooms if they have fire extinguishers rented from the school with them canadian dedater to argue control mcmaster u team comes to debate jehle robinson on gov't control mci master university of hamilton ontario is sending a sophomore-fresh man debate combination to buffalo to night to defend tlie principle of gov ernment control of the major basic industries this team has behind it the moral support of a previous victory over buffalo on this same subject on this occasion the canadians are up holding the principle which they suc cessfully attacked last fall mr leon jehle and mr bert bizantz were slated to speak for buffalo but due to an unfortunate illness of mr bizantz mr 10 l robinson will do a bit of pinch-hitting in this duo of jehle and robinson we find the pro bable nucleus of next year's varsity del wile team both are sophomores who have several debates behind them mr robinson will gird for battle to-night with the memory of his defeat at the hands of this mcmaster team spuring him to the height of endeavour m order to even the score this debate should draw a consider able number of forensic devotees be cause of first the buffalo team sec ond the sterling opposition and third the interesting subject it would be a great encauragemcnt to our boys if we eouid present them with an audience of over a hundred people as did mc master when our team debated there the place is the grosvenor library audi torium and the time eight o'clock to-night tea dance set for thursday pit the junior week committee is busy working on the junior tea dance to be held next thursday afternoon the definite time aud place lias not as yet been announced the committee is : charles dwyer sally dlebold helen b peters robert wlnegar sanford poppleton and margaret barton those who remember the tea dance last year will relish the announcement of this preliminary to the gala prom the junior tea dance is becoming popular and almost a tradition for further information watch the bulletin boards tickets may be secur ed from tlie committee thirty-eight students will receive degrees special to the bee a total of thirty-eight students will lie awarded their degree certificates ' and diplomas at the thirty-third an nual university day convocation on february 22 among the candidates approved by the university council m its meeting to-day are 4 candidates for the degree of master of arts 4 candidates for the degree of master of education 3 candidates for the de gree of bachelor of arts m the honors division 3 for the degree of bachelor of arts 1 for the degree of bachelor of science 5 for the degree of bachelor of science m education 3 for tbe de gree of bachelor of science m business administration 1 for a diploma m bus iness administration 3 for the certifi cate m public school music and 11 for the certificate m library science no candidates are being graduated at this time m law medicine dentistry or pharmacy a complete list of grad uates is as follows candidates for the degree et abater of arts â€” robert reed lyle frederick james moffitt benjamin boles sharpe mar garet stern wilkinson candidates for the degree ot master of education â€” alan edward bailey louise latona thomas oliver marshall jr norton w ruth candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts m the honors division â€” samuel gordon francis joseph macano louise raymond morton candidates or the degree of bachelor marguerite eleanor hablcht philip healy clyde vannees wbitton candidate for the degree of baerelor of science gertrude marlon rose candidates for the degree of bac helor of science m education â€” isabel edson champlaln peter rap hael saggese gladys margaret sid-man kathryn marie stanley candidate for the degree of bachelor of science m education vocational program â€” robert stanley hoole candidates for the degree of bachelor of science m business administration â€” robert theodore greene arthur campbell jardine herbert augustus paull miss federman speaks on youth in soviet russia if you were among that great and powerful mass of students who during examination week went around the halls eloquently expounding tbe lis advantages of examinations and ration alising on the fact that even if that prof gave you a d or an e marks were arbitrary and missed the true measure of intelligence let it be known that m at least one experiment the reverse has been found true in a lec ture on the youth in soviet russia given by miss bessie federmnn of hut hlnson-centiral high school before the social science club the statement was made that although the schools of the soviet bad previously abandoned exam inations they recently found that they had to revert to their old program miss federmnn confronted by the enigma of russia's experiment aud unwilling to accept either the all-black or all-white interpretation of the situation went to russia last summer to determine im partially how conditions really were miss federman emphasized the im portance of youth m the soviet on which she thinks that the entire suc cess of the present experiment depends if the youth of russia succeed she said they will have changed the psychology of a whole people as for the educational system the speaker made it clear that the two problems most perplexing to students m the united states namely tuition and positions are entirely absent m the u.s.s.r tuition is not required anywhere and in many cases some students are given a government stipend which is sufficient to care for the bare necessities of life the stipend how ever carries with it the obligation to go anywhere the government sends them for three years after the comple tion of thir course positions more over are always ready to receive the graduates the lecturer cited one cnse where a superintendent of schools traveled 0,000 miles to get a teacher â€” the demand is so heavy u b mem bers of the school of education please note the same case is found in the other professions and trades although the work is extremely difficult and the remuneration is comparatively small miss federman said these are not the values by which the russians measure their work if they suffer now they do so gladly since they feel that they urc doing their share for the government miss federman emphasized especial ly that the conditions in russia to-day do not approach utopia she recount ed-an incident of how children came to the train begging for food but this embarrasment of food is only found lit certain sections nowwhere however except m the army is the people's hun ger satiated yet they are willing to endure it since they consider it a mere temporary condition concluded the speaker continued to pg 2 col 0 continued to pg 3 col 1 j seniors i you'll want to be m the composite | last opportunity saturday | would you like a position on the bee staff i competition is now open see editor or the i | business manager hayes 8

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the bee the university of buffalo weekly vol 13 university of buffalo february 17 1933 no 17 honors conferred at mid-year commencement chancellor's medal awarded to winner at commencement special to the bee public award ct the chancellor's medal for 1033 will be an important part of the university of buffalo com mencement exercises in edmund hayes hall at the thirty-third annual univer sity day convocation on wednesday february 22 at ii o'clock according to a statement from chancellor capon at the close of the university council meeting in his office late this after noon not awarded during the years of 1028 and 1030 the medal 1ms been awarded by the university of buffalo council every year but two since its inauguration in 1925 according to the stipulation in the will of the late chan cellor charles p norton as friends of buffalo and of the university recall the clause in the will rends as follows : the chancellor's medal is to personify civic patriotism and verify public ser vice in the eyes of the citizens of buf falo that chancellor norton intended a very broad and liberal construction of the terms civic patriotism and pub lic service is made clear by the follow ing two paragraphs which he wrote concerning this event i ask the council of the university to award it each year on washington's birthday at the university exercises to some citizen who has performed some great thing which is identified with buffalo it may be a great civic or political act a great book a great work of art a great scientific achieve ment or any other thing which in it self is truly great and ennobling mid which dignifies the performer and bnf ' flilo ibtiw vt ot tmrworw by buffalo i mean not only the city of buffalo as it is circumscribed by its city limits but also the greater buffalo of its environing neighborhood to which the city's moral intellectual educational and business influence ex tends the deed for which the medal is given need not have been performd within the year immediately proceeding the time of awarding the decoration the medal may lie awarded to a man woman or child the recipients of the medal during the past eight years are ab follows 1925 bishop brent 1920 walter p cooke 1927 frank b baird 1928 no award 1929 john j albright 1930 no award 1081 durance j hamlin 1932 dr frank a hartman following the established tradition of the university the name of the per son who it to receive the award will not be made known until the time of the washington birthday exercises when the recipient is publicly honored by the gift of the inscribed bronze medal university faculty holds series of free lectures the lnst few lays of february the entire month ef march and part of april will see the university of buf falo open its irrtth'f halls to the pub he free of charge daring this time fine series if lec tures will lie given publicly by five different departments in the university on monday evening between february 27 and april 2 various professors from the history government and economics departments will speak at townsend hall professors bled blgelow pratt tlppetts park and bldwell will lecture then at 8:15 p m on international and economic developments since 1922 the lectures on adjustment to social change will be given on tuesday after noon at 4:30 beginning february 28 by professors leery carpenter dr h ij levin lester e s jones mr p p benjamin and miss marquerlte jane these also will be held at town send hall tlie contribution of literature to the life of to-day will be the subject of lectures by prcfessors perry silverman denklnger two lectures hewitt and schuuroth on wednesday evenings 8:15 o'clock at the grosvenor library decent developments m the physical and biological sciences will include demonstrations and lectures by profes sors it n jones d f smith spencer and pegrune on thursday evening 8 15 o'clock at foster hall to begin march 2 second professors from the school of educa tion will lecture on adjustment to educational change these lecturers are to be professors lynch jorgensen nod agee jhey will speak nf the grosvenor library on friday evenings between march 3 and 17 these lectures are being offered to the public partly in recognition of the needs created by the depression fur thermore the increasingly large num ber of college graduates who are un employed is indication that much of the public particularly the white collared unemployed are capable of gaining profit form these talks adequ ate opportunity for questioning or con ference with the speaker after the lec ture will be available scholarships and loans the committee on scholarships and loans announces that applications for scholarships and loans must be m the hands of the committee before septem ber first awards are announced on september 15 a few loans are re served for second semester announce ment of these awards are made on february first all available funds have been awarded for this year mechanism and vitalism topic of lecture bg mcgrath after the chairs lounges and benches in the women's lounge had been filled the late comers to the last philosophy club meeting availed themselves of seats m the windows on the piano or were content in finding something against which to lean mr earl j mcgrath spoke on mech anism and vitalism as explanations of life mr mcgrath gave a mass of cumulative evidence m support of mechanism from scientific investiga tions m physics chemistry biology and their allied fields he showed con clusively the necessity of the mechan istic point of view as a presupposition m successful scientific work in his paper he defended the mechanistic position against the strongest argu ments of the vitalists on two points mainly comparlsc.n of utility and com parison of methods used m building up evidence in the discussion which followed many points of view were expressed and mr mcgrath was asked to indicate the bearing which the mechanistic theory has upon such activities as re ligion moral responsibility and social sanctions all who were present regardless of their personal views agreed that it was a banner meeting following are excerpts from mr megrath's excellent paper in conclusion let us summarize the arguments thnt support the mechanistic position : iâ€”there1 â€” there are no chemical elements within the body which are not found elsewhere 2 â€” the organism abides by the sec ond law of thci-mndyuamices m that all the energy taken into the body m any form exactly equals the amount of energy expended by the organism in its various activities it is difficult there fore to understand the place of any extraphysieal force 3 â€” the progress of organic chemistry has demonstrated that a considerable number of the chemical constituents of the body can be synthesized 4 all investigations of anatomical and physiological features of the or ganism are explained in physical or chemical terms the processes of digestion and respiration and the cir culation of the blood illustrate this ken hines sings alna mater at junior prom tlie junior prom committee has made arrangements with the buffalo broadcasting corp for a big 8.8.c collegiate radio party to go over the air at 11 30 they have secured the services of kenneth hines as master of ceremonies who will sing the alma mater song at the beginning and end of the program kenneth hines you remember won the atwnter kent award six years ago and has had varied ex perience m national broadcasting and work as a professional master of cere monies in new york city grand march led by diet ward immediately following the radio pro gram the grand march will be held with chester ward this year's football mp tain leading the procession follofc 6y the presidents of the various jiticr classes this will give a chance to jthe charming ladles attending the affair to show off their new gowns and give the bison head society a chance to tap the new members the march will end at the stage where lelnnd mirsheimer president of the honorary society will speak a few words and introduce its new members after which due congratulations will be given by the chancellor and the deans deans to be in the receiving line the receiving line will lie composed of chancellor and sirs capen dean and mrs park dean and mrs marsh dean and mrs alden dean and mrs squire dean and mrs koch dean and mrs cummings and dean gregory in order to carry out the traditional pomp and ceremony of the affair it is request ed that all attending be officially re ceived from the indication of over 300 res ervations for the pcet-prom party at laube's old spain to be opeii exclusive ly to those attending the i'rom it would seem that n usual capacity crowd will attend get your tickets now as stud ent sellers must turn m the money or tickets by noon of the 24 of course s*oll may buy your tickets at the door but if you pay for them before the deadline your classmates will lie given credit for the sale jan carlson bee on display the display case on the third floor of crosby hall is at present graced with an exhibit of bees ancient and modem there is copy from way back m hv.il when the buffalo com mercial gave way to the university of buffalo bee subsequent issues on exhibit give opportunity for compar ison and furnish evidence of progress we see changes m type headings editorial style etc one is impressed with the fact that above all liast aud present the bee has been and is the organ of the student body the mirror of all university activity elected president john mccroery has lieen elected persident ofthe senior class of the school of business administration a senior at georgin teeb took the same course twice m the same room he passed both times under the same pro fessor aud never discovered the error nor did the professor tango your senorita to old spain resulting from the urge of enthus iasm the entire reserved seating cap acity for the junior prom party at lnube's old spain has been sold out added to an already attractive pro gram of entertainment will be a dark deep-dyed dramatic sketch by bert bisantz assisted by gordon hayes seymour abies edward brannllch and john murphy other entertainers will include the famous moore sisters radio singers bill lynd saxaphonlst and members of the prom orchestra one problem which is at present be setting the committee is the selection of a master of ceremonies to officiate at the microphone any suggestions ai.ing this line will be welcomed by bob winegar or walter mtiim ji soo-frr.e the laube management promises it k usual excellent food , and service and has made special attangements to ac commodate those who hold prom party tickets from 1 a m till it is fervently hoped that the five hundred dollar article on the garden wall namely the 13th century vene tian vase will still be intact after the festivities have faded into tlie dim and distant past this is extremely likely it had better bo if everyone keeps the schnobel m a clean and healthy con dition vernon craig shakespeare wrote not for posterity says hamilton mr clayton hamilton press-agent for walter hampdon leading actor of the american stage to-day spoke on hamlet and shakespeare m general tuesday afternoon february 14 ill crosby hull mr hamilton stated that shakespeare was primarily a play wright and secondarily a iÂ«>et whose purpose was to interest his immediate public not the public of posterity and to evoke an emotional response m ids audience not to concern himself with ethical ad religious problems the scope of drama is limited insofar as the playwright must set forth images thoughts and emotions combined m a way familiui to his audience in other words although shakespeare lived at a tinning point of time and was con temporary with the scientist francis bacon lie was not concerned with pro gress but summed up m his writings what had been thought and felt and said in preceding centuries after the retrospective manner of dramatists he performed the great function of drama that of furnishing vicarious experiences to help us understand our fellow-men hut exhibited the panorama of human experiences without drawing from them lessons m religion and philosophy although the current philosophic and religious thought accepted by shakes peare m hniulet was nearly outmoded in his own day his eloquent treatment of the subject still thrills audiences as ben jonson said he was not for an age lint for all time oberlin co-eds may smoke m their rooms if they have fire extinguishers rented from the school with them canadian dedater to argue control mcmaster u team comes to debate jehle robinson on gov't control mci master university of hamilton ontario is sending a sophomore-fresh man debate combination to buffalo to night to defend tlie principle of gov ernment control of the major basic industries this team has behind it the moral support of a previous victory over buffalo on this same subject on this occasion the canadians are up holding the principle which they suc cessfully attacked last fall mr leon jehle and mr bert bizantz were slated to speak for buffalo but due to an unfortunate illness of mr bizantz mr 10 l robinson will do a bit of pinch-hitting in this duo of jehle and robinson we find the pro bable nucleus of next year's varsity del wile team both are sophomores who have several debates behind them mr robinson will gird for battle to-night with the memory of his defeat at the hands of this mcmaster team spuring him to the height of endeavour m order to even the score this debate should draw a consider able number of forensic devotees be cause of first the buffalo team sec ond the sterling opposition and third the interesting subject it would be a great encauragemcnt to our boys if we eouid present them with an audience of over a hundred people as did mc master when our team debated there the place is the grosvenor library audi torium and the time eight o'clock to-night tea dance set for thursday pit the junior week committee is busy working on the junior tea dance to be held next thursday afternoon the definite time aud place lias not as yet been announced the committee is : charles dwyer sally dlebold helen b peters robert wlnegar sanford poppleton and margaret barton those who remember the tea dance last year will relish the announcement of this preliminary to the gala prom the junior tea dance is becoming popular and almost a tradition for further information watch the bulletin boards tickets may be secur ed from tlie committee thirty-eight students will receive degrees special to the bee a total of thirty-eight students will lie awarded their degree certificates ' and diplomas at the thirty-third an nual university day convocation on february 22 among the candidates approved by the university council m its meeting to-day are 4 candidates for the degree of master of arts 4 candidates for the degree of master of education 3 candidates for the de gree of bachelor of arts m the honors division 3 for the degree of bachelor of arts 1 for the degree of bachelor of science 5 for the degree of bachelor of science m education 3 for tbe de gree of bachelor of science m business administration 1 for a diploma m bus iness administration 3 for the certifi cate m public school music and 11 for the certificate m library science no candidates are being graduated at this time m law medicine dentistry or pharmacy a complete list of grad uates is as follows candidates for the degree et abater of arts â€” robert reed lyle frederick james moffitt benjamin boles sharpe mar garet stern wilkinson candidates for the degree ot master of education â€” alan edward bailey louise latona thomas oliver marshall jr norton w ruth candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts m the honors division â€” samuel gordon francis joseph macano louise raymond morton candidates or the degree of bachelor marguerite eleanor hablcht philip healy clyde vannees wbitton candidate for the degree of baerelor of science gertrude marlon rose candidates for the degree of bac helor of science m education â€” isabel edson champlaln peter rap hael saggese gladys margaret sid-man kathryn marie stanley candidate for the degree of bachelor of science m education vocational program â€” robert stanley hoole candidates for the degree of bachelor of science m business administration â€” robert theodore greene arthur campbell jardine herbert augustus paull miss federman speaks on youth in soviet russia if you were among that great and powerful mass of students who during examination week went around the halls eloquently expounding tbe lis advantages of examinations and ration alising on the fact that even if that prof gave you a d or an e marks were arbitrary and missed the true measure of intelligence let it be known that m at least one experiment the reverse has been found true in a lec ture on the youth in soviet russia given by miss bessie federmnn of hut hlnson-centiral high school before the social science club the statement was made that although the schools of the soviet bad previously abandoned exam inations they recently found that they had to revert to their old program miss federmnn confronted by the enigma of russia's experiment aud unwilling to accept either the all-black or all-white interpretation of the situation went to russia last summer to determine im partially how conditions really were miss federman emphasized the im portance of youth m the soviet on which she thinks that the entire suc cess of the present experiment depends if the youth of russia succeed she said they will have changed the psychology of a whole people as for the educational system the speaker made it clear that the two problems most perplexing to students m the united states namely tuition and positions are entirely absent m the u.s.s.r tuition is not required anywhere and in many cases some students are given a government stipend which is sufficient to care for the bare necessities of life the stipend how ever carries with it the obligation to go anywhere the government sends them for three years after the comple tion of thir course positions more over are always ready to receive the graduates the lecturer cited one cnse where a superintendent of schools traveled 0,000 miles to get a teacher â€” the demand is so heavy u b mem bers of the school of education please note the same case is found in the other professions and trades although the work is extremely difficult and the remuneration is comparatively small miss federman said these are not the values by which the russians measure their work if they suffer now they do so gladly since they feel that they urc doing their share for the government miss federman emphasized especial ly that the conditions in russia to-day do not approach utopia she recount ed-an incident of how children came to the train begging for food but this embarrasment of food is only found lit certain sections nowwhere however except m the army is the people's hun ger satiated yet they are willing to endure it since they consider it a mere temporary condition concluded the speaker continued to pg 2 col 0 continued to pg 3 col 1 j seniors i you'll want to be m the composite | last opportunity saturday | would you like a position on the bee staff i competition is now open see editor or the i | business manager hayes 8